Talmud for Niddah 17:68

HALAKHAH: “What is an old woman,” etc. Rebbi Meïr says, the blood disappears because of the milk⁹³In the Babli, 9a, “the blood is turned into milk”.. Rebbi Yose says, the blood disappears because of the pain⁹⁴In the Babli, 9a, R. Yose, R. Simeon, and R. Jehudah hold that “her limbs are in disorder and do not return to their natural shape before 24 months.”. You find a leniency and a stringency following Rebbi Meïr, and a leniency and a stringency following Rebbi Yose. A leniency following Rebbi Meïr, for if the baby was continuing to suckle for four ot five years, her timing continues exact⁹⁵Babli 9a, Tosephta 2:1.. And a stringency, if she handed her child to a wet-nurse or it died, she [makes impure] for 24 hours. A leniency for Rebbi Yose, for if she handed her child to a wet-nurse or it died, her timing is exact⁹⁶Up to 24 months after giving birth.. And a stringency, for if the baby was continuing to suckle for four ot five years, it is forbidden after 24 months⁹⁷The text is influenced by the following discussion over the length of the nursing period. R. Yose holds that the timing of a nursing woman is exact only up to 24 months; Babli 9a, Tosephta 2:1.. But did not Rebbi Meïr say, she makes impure for 24 hours? When⁹⁸After stopping to nurse, when do the rules for the mother change from exact timing to retroactive impurity?? Immediately or if the baby stops and cannot start again? Let us hear from the following⁹⁹Tosephta 2:3, Babli Ketubot 60a; Yerushalmi Ketubot 5:6 (Notes 147–151) in a slightly different version as seen from the variant readings denoted by כ. One may assume that the rich landlord R. Eliezer presents the rule usual in his moneyed circle and the poor charcoal burner R. Joshua those of the poor, who had no money for baby food and could use the implied contraception provided by nursing.: “A baby can nurse until 24 complete months, after that it is as if an abomination suckled, the words of Rebbi Eliezer. Rebbi Joshua said, a baby can nurse even four or five years; this is permitted. If he stopped, one cannot return him.” How long? Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa, Rebbi Ḥiyya in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: up to 24 hours. Rebbi Ḥizqiah, Rebbi Abbahu in the name of Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish, up to three times 24 hours. When was this said? If he stopped when healthy. But if he stopped because of sickness, one can return him immediately. And for a baby which was not in danger¹⁰⁰Danger to his life.. But a baby who was in danger one can return him immediately even after a longer time.